[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Spying!Snape won't happen

[Becky Walkden]

No: HPFGUIDX 58974

> Melanie Ellis wrote:
> One thing that sort of stood out at me last time I reread GoF.  
> Voldemort's actual words regarding the second one mentioned is, "One
who I 
> *believe* has left me forever."  I find it interesting that he used the
word 
> "believe" in his statement.  He didn't come right out and say that he
has left 
> him forever.  <snip>  By  saying that he *believes* this person has
left him forever, to me, he is 
> admitting that he is not 100% sure this person has left him, but just
that he 
> is pretty sure he has.  It is the wording of this statement that, if 
> this phrase *does* pertain to Snape, and if his mission *is* to return
to 
> spying on Voldemort, that might just give Snape a slender way back in. 

ME:  There's another angle to that statement "I believe has left me forever."  While Voldemort is definitely totally evil, he is not stupid.  There is an indication there that Voldemort recognizes that this person had a reason, totally legitimate at least in this person's mind for leaving him and that Voldemort is at least willing to consider accepting him back.  Assuming it is Snape he's referring to, it brings back the long speculated question as to WHY Snape left him.  I think we've covered all the theories already pretty thoroughly but it will be interesting to see which one (if any) holds water.  Huggs Becky


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